One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized See the Bankes Homer Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)
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News Summary
- Many an ancient work comes down to us as the product of “Anonymous” In the case of the major Greek epics, The Odyssey and The Iliad, we have a name, Homer, that most classics scholars treat as a convenient placeholder.
- For historian Adam Nicolson, it’s a mistake to think of Homer as a person.
- Homer is an ‘it’ A tradition.
Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory isthat a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director.
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